Instruction Manual

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Surround Effects
Surround Mixing
The SurroundBridge
The SurroundBridge automatically loads enough instances of a plug-in to
handle all your surround channels. For example, if you patch a stereo effect
into a surround bus that uses 5.1 SMPTE/ITU panning, the SurroundBridge
automatically assigns the Left and Right channels of the bus to instance 1
of the plug-in, assigns the Left Surround and Right Surround channels to
instance 2, the Center channel to instance 3, and the LFE channel to
instance 4. If you patch a mono effect into a surround bus, the
SurroundBridge assigns each channel to a single instance of the mono
effect, which would create six instances of the effect on a 5.1 surround bus.
You can view and edit these assignments on the SurroundBridge tab that’s
in the property page of every effect that’s patched into a surround bus. For
example, if you want a certain effect on the Left Surround channel of a
surround bus, but not on the Right Surround channel, you can assign these
two channels to different instances of the effect you’re patching by choosing
options on the SurroundBridge tab of the effect’s property page.
The SurroundBridge also links the automatable parameters of each
instance so that when you change a parameter in one instance, you
automatically change the same parameter in all the other instances. You
can unlink parameters individually, or per-instance.
See:
Effect Property Pages
Effect Presets
How to Patch and Configure Surround Effects
Effect Property Pages
A single property page controls all instances of an effect that is patched into
a surround bus. The effect’s property page displays a different tab for each
instance of the effect. By default, when you change an automatable
parameter on one tab of the property page, that change is duplicated on all
the tabs of the property page. However, you can “unlink” individual
parameters from the other tabs by clicking the Unlink Controls button in the
effect property page, and while the button is enabled (red), move the
parameter you want to unlink, and then click the Unlink Controls button
again to disable it. Now you can change that parameter on one tab without
changing the same parameter on the other tabs. You can also link or unlink
all of an instance’s parameters by using the controls on the SurroundBridge
tab.